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NYPD Detective Kathy Mallory has not shown up for work for several days. The members of the department cover for her as every once in a while a cop suffers from burn-out and just needs to disappear for a while. But when her partner Riker enters Mallory's Upper West Side apartment looking for her, he finds it uncharacteristically messy. Not only that, there's a dead woman lying there. Mallory is on her way to Chicago in her car, a Volkswagen Beetle, like the one her father drove many years before, or so it appears. The car is really a Porsche with a VW shell. Mallory likes high performance equipment. With her are letters she refers to periodically, looking for landmarks mentioned in the missives. Riker follows Mallory to Chicago, but Mallory keeps ahead of him most of the time, following her own path, listening to music that is detailed in the letters and searching. They both end up in a caravan consisting of dozens of parents who have lost children. The parents are searching along Route 66 for graves. Many have already been found by a strange FBI agent who then takes the bodies and hides them. All the parents want is to find their children. The FBI man wants fame. Mallory is searching for something unknown and Riker is searching for Mallory. Unlike many other series writers, O'Connell does not churn out one book a year. This is only the ninth Mallory book in 12 years. Mallory is unique, a feral child tamed by a loving NYPD detective and his wife, who seems incomplete. She is always searching for her past, but she functions extremely well. Perhaps not so well when it comes to personal relationships, but she is always searching for justice for the underdog. Read FIND ME and then go back to MALLORY'S ORACLE and start the series from the beginning. You won't be disappointed.
Reviewed by Barbara Franchi, January 2007
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